Software Engineer II - Front End/ Back End

Ad Hoc•Columbia, MD

9h•Remote

About The Position

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government. Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology. Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers. Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works. The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years of engineering experience.
US Citizen.
Required to have resided within the United States for three or more years out of the last five years.
Will be required to undergo a background investigation to gain a Public Trust Security Clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience within the following tech stacks: JAVA, Microsoft VB.NET (MS Framework 4.0), C, C# (MS Framework 4.0), C++, Crystal Reports, Oracle, MS-SQL, Tomcat 8
Experience within an Agile Scrum environment

Responsibilities

Serves as an individual contributor within a team; with the support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements.
Develop an awareness and understanding of the engineering function within the program, as well as interact with stakeholders.
Estimates and completes development tasks including coding, requirements gathering, and analysis with a moderate level of feedback and guidance from their team.
Debugs, optimizes, maintains, and monitors their work in both test and production environments.
Develops tests, monitoring/instrumentation, analytics, and deployment pipeline changes as appropriate for the given task.
Participates in on-call rotations with their team as necessary.
Builds technical and communication skills, gaining context around surrounding areas.
Participates in planning sessions, building an understanding of major architectures and design patterns.
Actively participates in design and asks questions to work toward understanding of technical trade-offs, interactions, and dependencies in the system.
Development of influential skills to help make tactical decisions and support onboarding for new developers.
Exhibits understanding for other roles and practices, including how they are intended to work together.